F3KA overheating problem

Hello.

I own Asus f3ka laptop for like 8 months for now, never had and overheating issue till now (i think its overheating atleast).

Laptop is not overheating when doing basic tasks or something, but when it gets stressed by playing some game, runing some applications what requires a lot of resources. When i'm playing fallout 3 notebook turns off after about 20minutes. Also notebook turns off when i'm doing 3dmark06 (it turns off at CPU test).
EDIT: About 3dmark, graphic tests runs just fine, without making notebook to turn off

How could I solve it? I recently moved from Vista to Windows XP, i didn't had such problems in Vista before, but i didn't play any games for few months tho on Vista. Also... maybe it could be because of dust? If so, is it possible to clean it by myself or i need to bring it to service?

Thanks and sorry for my broken English.

 

No need to appologise for your English. It's very good!

Make sure all the air vents and heatsinks are not blocked with dust or foreign bodies and make sure the fan(s) are spinning.

Also you can download SpeedFan which will list your temp's you could post a screenshot also http://www.almico.com/speedfan435.exe

 

Do you hear the fan of the notebook before/during overheating? If you do not hear the fan it's possible that it isn't running at full speed. Speedfan (linked above) should allow you to control the fan. You can try setting it at full speed and see if you get any overheating then. If you do not get any overheating with the fan at full speed I suggest that you run Speedfan at anytime that you stress the computer (playing games or whatever).

I installed Speedfan some time ago on my A6JC and without it running the fan kicked in at 62C (CPU temp), now it stays at 40% (just below audible level) and goes higher if the CPU gets over 55C. With a 100% cpu load it stays at 51C with only 60% load of the fan.

 

Thank you Everway9, i installed it and uploaded screenshot.
Looks like i have CPU cooling issues, according to thing that i had nothing runing when taking this screenshot.

To D.A.,
Yes i hear fan spining when it gets overheated, it spins very hard at that time.

 

Could be a lot of dust in the computer if the fans speed up.

You can test how cool it is though if you click on "Configure" then go to the "Advanced" tab, in the pull down menu chose whatever option that fits your CPU. Mine is called Intel SMBus. There you can set PWM modes to "Manually Controlled". If you click okay should be able to control your fan with the input in the main window.

See "Speed01" input below:

 

Thanks, for some reason i'm not able to set PWM modes for my AMD proc (it appears as AMD K8), proc is amd turion dual core tl-60, only option what appears is "Temperature 1 offset", looks like speedfan won't recognize it.
Anyway, i will try to get rid of dust in fans somehow, searched forum and found some guides where dust is cleaned by using compressed air.
Since temps seems way too hight.

Thanks again, any other input is welcome.

 

SpeedFan has problems with new machines, I'd recommend against using it.

As to cleaning, I recommend you go further than compressed air and actually remove the fan to get to the heatsink (assuming it is possible to do so without voiding warranty). There is a guide posted by Coriolis, linked from the Info Booth. I am not sure to what extent it applies to your machine, but it's worth a try.

 

Thanks to everyone, i removed the fan and cleaned it and cleaned... "gateway" if i could call it so whats connected to fan. Now temps are back to normal.
EDIT:As i read your post again E.B.E. it was "heatsink" i got to, sorry my english just fails at some point
Cheers.

 

Glad we could help! Yep, the name it heatsink. Where the heat goes (like the kitchen sink is where the water goes) I guess... (I'm not a native English speaker either)